Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Anthropology
Chair: Gary Seaman, Ph.D.
Faculty
Professors: Eugene Cooper, Ph.D.; Caleb E. Finch, Ph.D. (Gerontology); Gelya Frank, Ph.D. (Occupational Science); Janet Hoskins, Ph.D.; Dorinne Kondo, Ph.D.; Nancy Lutkehaus, Ph.D.; Peter Mancall, Ph.D. (History); Cheryl Mattingly, Ph.D.; Lawrence A. Palinkas, Ph.D. (Social Work); Alison Renteln, Ph.D. (Political Science); Andrei Simic, Ph.D.; Craig Stanford, Ph.D.* (Biological Sciences)
Associate Professors: Lanita Jacobs, Ph.D.; Gary Seaman, Ph.D.
Distinguished Adjunct Professor: Jane Goodall, Ph.D.
Associate Professors (Teaching): Erin Moore, Ph.D.; Tok Thompson, Ph.D.; Thomas Ward, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Teaching): Thomas Garrison, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor: G. Alexander Moore, Ph.D.
The Department of Anthropology offers a B.A. in Anthropology with tracks in cultural anthropology, medical anthropology and biological anthropology; a B.A. in Anthropology with a concentration in visual anthropology; a B.A. in Global Studies; minor programs in cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, folklore and popular culture; an M.A. in Anthropology; a certificate in visual anthropology; a progressive master’s degree in visual anthropology; and a Ph.D. in Anthropology.
The Department of Anthropology encourages students to become involved in ethnographic research and fieldwork while gaining a firm theoretical foundation in anthropology. Special areas of emphasis in the department are provided by visual anthropology, biocultural approaches to human evolution, a medical anthropology program that examines the body, illness and healing from a cultural perspective, a folklore oriented course of study that links cultural practice to interpretive strategies and a newly initiated Global Studies major that seeks to provide conceptualizations of linkages of the global with the local. All of these topical interests are unified by a methodological approach that puts ethnography at the core and views personally experienced fieldwork as the foundation of our academic discipline.